176 Movie Quotes about Music (Sound Clips) - page 17

Updated: Sep 11, 2025

Memorable quotes about music, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

161 Songs and dances? That might be interesting. Nobody cares about shootings anyway.

Dabney Coleman in The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

162 What do you want to hear, Price, Home on the Range? Or maybe a little Wagner?

William Holden as J.J. Sefton in Stalag 17 (1953)

163 I shall always remember this room, just as it is now. The lamplight, you at the piano, my own happiness.

Angela Lansbury as Sibyl Vane in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

164 At heart, they're just little savages. But music, you know, has the charms to sooth the savage breast. And if it has such an influence, and if you can do so much in a few days, I'm thinking...

Quote from Love Affair (1939)

165 I wouldn't jam with you if my life depended on it.

Gloria Hendry as Sydney Byrd in Black Belt Jones (1974)

166 So, he gets this piece of Pavarotti... -It was Paganini. -Whatever. -It was Paganini. -Look, this is my story, okay? -Then tell it right, Cob. Pavarotti is a tenor. Paganini was a composer.

Courtney B. Vance as Jonesy in The Hunt for Red October

167 Let's turn on some music while we're waiting. -Orders were to stay on our wavelength. -Oh, nothing will happen for a while. It'll help pass the time.

Quote from Superman (1948)

168 Someone made a tape of something dying or something.

Quote from Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

169 Now there's a new game. Us old players are gone. But you can see our story on music videos with prop guns and fake champagne.

Wood Harris in Paid in Full (2002)

170 The highest hotels, the oldest champagne, the richest caviar, the hottest music and the prettiest wife.

Quote from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)